The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1887-05-07
THE LABOR WORLD.

THE LABOR WORLD.
FULLY 100000 bushels Of coal is now
ready to go out on the first rise.
MICHIGAN chair factories can't fill thei1
orders, though running overtime.
ALL of the mines in and around Nanti.
coke, Pa, are now in full operation.
THE condition of the window glass trade
continues good, the demand being very
fair aud prices firm.
The Cuban Federation of Cigarmakers
has issued a label Tor use on all goods man
ufactured by their organization.
The brick makers in all large cities are
of opinion that the demand for brick will
be twenty five per cent. ahead of last year.
A CONFERENCE is to be held soon between
representatives of the glass mixers and
teasers and the Manufacturers Associa-
ton.
BUILDERS propose to agitate for the in.
sertion in contracts Of a clause relieving
them from their undertakings when strike
takes place.
The geographical extent of the Illinois
coal field within the border Of the State,
may be placed in round numbers at $1,000
square miles.
G. NJ. HENDERSON, the shoe contractor Of
the Riverside Penitentiary, will, after his
contract expires on November /, remove
the machinery to Dixon, ILL.,
The Legislature of Connecticut has just
passed law restricting factory labor to
ten hours per day. or sixty hours per
week, for women and children.
The wages of two hundred employees Of
Arms, Bell & Co., manufacturers of nuts
and bolts at Youngstown, o., have been
voluntarily advanced ten per cent
The bricklayers' union of Brooklyn
have arranged with their bosses on scale
of prices for the ensuing year. 1t is the
same as the old one-forty five cents an
hour.
The Knights OF Labor in Norwich Conn,
have formed joint stock company and
purchased the knitting factory in that
village with capital of s., 900 in 900 shares
Of S each.
A GREAT many carpenters. joiners, brick.
layers and other tradesmen are rushing
West, expecting to pick up work at once.
In some places, notably at Chicago, they
have been disappointed
TRADE organizations are springing ur
among manufactures, and comparatively
few trades remain unorganized. Produc-
ton is un'ler better control than ever, and
capacity Is being rapidly expanded.
sixty meat-dealers at Akron, O., re.
Gently refused to handle carcasses shipped
thither from Chicago by Armour & Co.
The firm opened three retail markets and
speedily brought the boycott to close.
The Century Publishing Co. and the Nes
Yorker Stats Zeitung years ago adopted the
profit sharing SYSTEM and the latter con-
Germ recently shared profits with its en-
ployes at the rate Of ten per cent. on their
salaries.
The steel manufacturing industries, OF
Syracuse, n. Y, are to be materially in.
creased. There is contemplated inn
provement at the Sanderson Steel Works,
which will involve an expenditure of more
than 100000.
The various nail manufacturing firms
are piling up stock in their warehouses
now. It would be we'll for feeders and
others, thinks the National Labor Tribune, to
be stocking up'' their ducats for rainy
day in the near future.
A Moscow (Russia) firm has ordered q
151horse-power engine from Westing-
house, at Pittsburgh, and Yokohama
(Japan) firm, has ordered one 60-horse.
power, while a 15o-horse-power engine is
being made for Australia
Gas as a fuel is gaming ground. The
system is being carefully studied in the
East. The manufacturers in Jersey City
are ma king preparations to use it. A To-
connective works and rolling-mll at Pater.
son have decided to use it.
A PLATE mill is to be built at Pitts burgh
263 feet long, IS feet wide, with two wings
IS feet wide. The horizontal rolls will be
u inches long and 80 inches in diameter,
and will roll 80 ton ingots. 1t will be the
largest mill of this kind in the world.
EMPLOYERS are here and there discussing
in an informal way the merits and demer.
its of dividing profits with workmen. In
the New England States the feeling is that
the construction of workmen's houses is
the b tier plan. Labor organizations
themselves are giving the subject no spec
ial atten tion.
The general strike Of the plum bers OF
New York for an enforcement of an APP
premiership system in the trade has at
last been declared off. The struggle was
begun Semptember l, 1886, and has proved
one of the hardest fought and most ex-
pensive in the history of the labor move
ments Of that city. A guerilla warfare
will be kept up against those employers
who are still determined to resist the de-
manGs. During the strike the journey
men paid out over 500, 200 in strike bene.